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| SteveRidout Diglot Groupie Spain readlang.com Joined 4280 days ago 65 posts - 121 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 81 of 131 27 June 2013 at 1:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks! Yes I only started on it 7 months ago, so there's no need to be annoyed :) I've been adding languages as people ask for them, so if there's one you'd like just let me know. The only requirements are that it's supported by google translate, and that the word boundaries are easily detectable (which rules out Chinese, Japanese, etc.). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6676 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 82 of 131 27 June 2013 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In that case I request Bulgarian! I was just despairing because I'll soon run out of
printed pages for the book I've been reading, so I was wondering what to do next. If I can just load it into your site and save words there I'm all set! Oh, if I look up the same word 10 times, will the system realize I'm slow and refrain from adding duplicates? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| SteveRidout Diglot Groupie Spain readlang.com Joined 4280 days ago 65 posts - 121 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 83 of 131 27 June 2013 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Actually, Bulgarian is already there. It's the last in the list: български (if you hover
the cursor over the words it shows the name of the language in English). The system will never add duplicates of the same word, but be aware it will count "bike" and "bikes", or "run" and "ran" as different words, despite being forms of the same root word. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 84 of 131 27 June 2013 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It'd be nice to have a system for detecting variants of the same word, but i can't imagine the work that'd entail. I've just checked out the new changes in Catalan and i have to say that it's perfect, thanks!
I'd say you could apply the same rules to French. I don't think it'll really be a problem since i can't imagine anyone wanting to translate it, but something "il m'a dit" or "je n'y vais pas" might cause problems. For French i think you could always attach the apostrophe to the previous part of the word. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| malbonheur Triglot Newbie Peru Joined 4397 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, EnglishC1 Studies: German | Message 85 of 131 27 June 2013 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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First, I must say how glad I am that someone created such a website. Thanks SteveRidout!
Now, I tried to add a youtube video to a novella, but I found that you've set the limit of this wonderful feature to 10000 words. Will you be expanding the word limit? the novella is quite short around 100 pages. It would be very useful. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 86 of 131 28 June 2013 at 4:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been breaking books into chapters. If your book doesn't have chapters you could just divide it yourself into parts and read it that way. In the future there will supposedly be built-in support for chapters, but for now you can just break up the book by yourself :)
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 87 of 131 28 June 2013 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've mentioned this on the site feedback, but I'll mention it here as well, to see what
other people think: It would be rather cool to be able to import EPUBs directly, and in fact make Readlang into a full-blown EPUB reader, with the added benefit of translation and the learning features. This isn't so much about saving the work of conversion (which isn't onerous, but it would be nice to save a step), but EPUBs can have things like illustrations or fancy chapter headings, etc, which it would be nice not to lose. I had assumed EPUBs would be a lot bigger than the corresponding .txt file, but in the case of the book I currently have uploaded, it's actually smaller. Admittedly that may not always be the case. I don't know how diffucult it is to code an EPUB reader, but the simple-but-effective "Coolreader3" is open-source. (I can't remember whether Calibre is as well), so maybe you could get inspiration there, if needed. (I suppose then though, that people would ask you to support MOBI, and others - however, EPUB is supposed to be an open "standard" format, and is perhaps more worthy of support than proprietary formats). 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| malbonheur Triglot Newbie Peru Joined 4397 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, EnglishC1 Studies: German | Message 88 of 131 29 June 2013 at 1:00am | IP Logged | |||||
I'll do that then.
I fully agree with that, and there is an extension for chrome, Readium at http://readium.org/, that supports EPUB3 PS: Am I the only one for whom the sync function doesn't work anymore. Whenever I try to sync a youtube video it only translates. And for the already synced videos the play function doesn't work either. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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